It wants to be an ecchi, wants to be an action show with lore, wants to be a romance, wants to be a comedy. So there is a fundamental identity crisis. As an ecchi, it is incredibly uncreative an just goes for the usual topless scene, usually focused just on Matsuri. Compared to Love Ru, it just feels lazy.
As an action show, nothing to write home about in 2023 with unimpressive action. It will look great in manga form, but this studio unfortunately won't be able to meet modern standards. Powers more or less ripping off Naruto characters like Sai and Ten Ten. Sosuke was a cool villain but unfortunately a fairly villain of the week one.
The story lacks a lot of structure, and if you aren't a fan of his art style, you will likely lose interest fast. It switches between action then sol, and more or less does the same thing. As a result, the simplistic story is not going to cater interest. It more or less just there to explain the transformation and becomes less relevant later on.
The biggest problem is definitely the characters since despite a smaller cast than TLR, Lucy and Yayoi feel way too secondary to even most of the TLR cast with no role to right home about. So there role feels gimmicky like Risa from TLR.
Comedy was good at the beginning with the transition but sort of fizzledo out later on, and I don't think the romance is well written. It is basically I have feelings and such.
He is a phenomenal artist but probably shouldn't try to tackle a manga by himself. To Love Ru didn't deserve to die for this. There are extremely talented writers like Koshi Tachibana that can fuse ridiculous fan service elements into an amazing epic. But Yabuki has shown he isn't one of them.
